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OLDER POST:Jumping Dolphin, Dolphin Academy, CuracaoNEWER POST:Laughing Dolphin, Dolphin Underwater, CuracaoJan 28, 10 Comments Off
 Common Octopus Good evening one and all, how was your day?? Mine was down right fantastic!! We started off the day with a nice much needed rain shower, something this island needed very bad! Aimee took the dogs on a fun run and I met some friends of ours who are here on vacation at the moment from Holland and off we went to the best sea glass beach in Curacao. I think it’s safe to say we all had a great time collecting polished glass shards of every color and shape and with every in-coming wave there is a whole new selection to choose from, it’s really great!! After around an hour we all figured we had enough for now and off we went in different ways. The minute I got home I started putting my underwater camera together and trying to find all my dive gear. Turns out I had to go to the aquarium to get the rest of my gear and while there I picked up two tanks from Hans owner of the new Sea Aquarium Animal Encounters Dive Shop, you can check out his new site at; www.curious2dive.com Once I located everything at the aquarium I took off back home to pick up Aimee and the camera and then off we went to the World famous Dive Bus Hut; www.the-dive-bus.com Here we unloaded the car and got ready for our long overdo dive, Aimee and I couldn’t even remember when we last dove together, it had been that long!! We jumped in around 11:30 and off we went in search of adventure. For some reason today I brought my 28-70 lens and for once I had the right lens as everything we found would have been way to big for the macro and not quite big enough for the wide angle. We first hunted for a possible Lionfish but never found it as it was only a rumor of it being there anyways. While searching for interesting photos I came across a nice little gold spotted eel and then a beautiful purple sea anemone it was just what I needed to get used to my camera and being underwater again. About half way thru the dive I was shooting a big school of grunts when Aimee signaled me by banging on her tank to get over here ASAP!! She pointed down at the reef and there just hanging out was this very big Common Octopus!! Folks this guy was just spectacular, maybe one of the biggest I have ever seen! And to find him out during the day cruising all over the corals, well it was just to good to be true! He was turning all different colors right in front of our eyes so we kind of just sat back and watched from a distance and enjoyed the show. I think we followed him around the reef for 10-15 minutes until he finally went down inside a metal girder and with that Aimee waved good-bye and off we went. The next thing we found was a beautiful little red frogfish, but he was too far down inside a sheet of firecoral to get any kind of a decent photo, but getting to see him was great. I noticed Aimee was getting cold so we started to head back and within minutes we surfaced with a face full of smiles! After rinsing dive gear and cleaning the camera I then took off on some errands around town like picking up my bike and returning the tanks. At 5:00 Aimee had a meeting at work and I went on a one hour bike ride but felt very tired still from the dive. I have to remember no diving and biking on the same day unless I go biking first, hmmmmm.
Aimee just made incredible authentic red enchilada’s with grilled chicken, fried potatoes and topped with an egg, that has to be one of my favorite dishes!! Ok, I am tired now, long day, my returned Mac is working great so glad to have it back!! Thanks for all the notes, you folks are the best!! Curacao regards, Barry
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